YSU's Supercomputer: The Colony

The Colony is YSU's supercomputer, a cluster of 16 SGI 1400L Dual Pentium Pentium III Xeon 550MHz nodes. The Colony was granted to YSU by OSC, Ohio Supercomputer, as part of "Cluster Ohio". Cluster Ohio is an initiative of OSC, the Ohio Board of Regents, and the OSC Statewide Users Group that encourages Ohio faculty to build local computing clusters. At YSU, the cluster is used for:

• computational chemistry
• the study of parallel algorithm development
• mathematical biology
• theoretical atomic physics

It is also used to teach students and staff how to program in a massive parallel environment, and used for machine administration and maintenance. It was installed at YSU on August 23, 2002. The YSU Colony is now available for an upgrade.

Here is a list of other university cluster sites in and around Ohio and the principle investigator:

• Wilberforce University, Asikele
• Bowling Green State University, Duncan
• University of Dayton, Smari
• University of Toledo, Amar
• Youngstown State University, Crescimanno
• Ohio University, Elster
• Kent State University, Farrel
• Wright State University, Gallagher
• University of Akron, Liszka
• Kent State University, Melton
• Wright State University, Wang
• Case Western Reserve University, White

If you are interested in contacting the principle investigator, technical support